Dolo hospital airstrike | |
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Part of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War | |
Location | Dolo, Ethiopia |
Coordinates | 4°10′N 42°04′E / 4.167°N 42.067°E |
Date | 30 December 1935 |
Target | Field hospital |
Attack type | Airstrike |
Weapon | Mustard gas bombs |
Deaths | 22–30 |
Perpetrators | Royal Italian Air Force |
On 30 December 1935, a Swedish Red Cross field hospital was destroyed in an airstrike by the Regia Aeronautica (Royal Italian Air Force) in Dolo, Ethiopia, killing between 22 and 30 people, mostly Ethiopians. The attack was part of an Italian response to the killing of Italian aviator Tito Minniti by either Ethiopian troops or civilians.